sam wrote: > Jim Thompson wrote: > >> >> >> On Jun 1, 2005, at 3:35 AM, Kövesdán Gábor wrote: >> >>> >>> Reboot into single user mode, remount root with mount -u, then: >>> >>> cd /usr/src >>> make installworld >> >> >> >> I keep seeing this, and its all fine and dandy, I even understand >> some of the reasons why its a good idea. >> >> But friends, I, and probably a million other people, run FreeBSD in >> colo space, and in my case, its a 3000 mile >> trip (across the ocean, so I can't even drive) to go visit the poor >> machines. >> >> So, what about a short discussion on the risks of ignoring the >> request to go to single-user? >> >> and yeah, I know about serial consoles. >> > I guess you are talking about binary update. This had been discuessed > million times in the newsgroup. I feel that if you have a handy tool of > binary update thru the www, that will be able to bring you a happy > profit. There was an open-source server code called binary update, it > keeps in private sector now. That company is using it offers service to > freebsd community. If you want to join them you can pay them a fair > amount of dollars then you can have your freebsd system binary update > regularly thru their server. Are you talking about this: http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/ Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never. ------------------------------------------------------------------------Received on Wed Jun 01 2005 - 12:16:18 UTC
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